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10 September. - 1919 My Dear Dad : - I am having another wonderful trip. I am now at Ghent in Belgium. It is one of the oldest and most interesting cities of the world. Possibly you were here before. I left Trier about a week ago and came up through Coblenz, Cologne, Bonn, Brussels, Antwerp, I remained a day or more in each place and saw everything of interest. I have spent two or three days in Brussels and the same in Antwerp. Tomorrow afternoon I Ieave here for Bruges and then for Ostend. From what I here, Ostend is a "Place Magnifique". I intend to go up to [Zeebrugge] where the English made their naval raid and then on to Paris by way of Lille and Cambrai. Possibly I shall have time to see Verdun before returning to Trier. I have been through Louvain and Liege. As soon as I get to Trier I hope to find orders awaiting for me to return to the States for discharge. This will be about Sept. 18. I was not able to get up into Holland as the Dutch are very strict now about passports. I went to the American Consul General in Antwerp but he could do nothing for me. I can save that for next time, however, as I am seeing plenty here in Belgium and France. Don't let anybody talk to you about "poor starving Belgium". There is more food here than in

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10 September. - 1919 My Dear Dad : - I am having another wonderful trip. I am now at Ghent in Belgium. It is one of the oldest and most interesting cities of the world. Possibly you were here before. I left Trier about a week ago and came up through Coblenz, Cologne, Bonn, Brussels, Antwerp, I remained a day or more in each place and saw everything of interest. I have spent two or three days in Brussels and the same in Antwerp. Tomorrow afternoon I Ieave here for Bruges and then for Ostend. From what I here, Ostend is a "Place Magnifique". I intend to go up to [Zeebrugge] where the English made their naval raid and then on to Paris by way of Lille and Cambrai. Possibly I shall have time to see Verdun before returning to Trier. I have been through Louvain and Liege. As soon as I get to Trier I hope to find orders awaiting for me to return to the States for discharge. This will be about Sept. 18. I was not able to get up into Holland as the Dutch are very strict now about passports. I went to the American Consul General in Antwerp but he could do nothing for me. I can save that for next time, however, as I am seeing plenty here in Belgium and France. Don't let anybody talk to you about "poor starving Belgium". There is more food here than in